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DIED. Andy Kaufman, 35, quirky comedian who antagonized as many audiences as he delighted with his bizarre brand of humor; of lung cancer (although he was never a smoker); in Los Angeles. From 1978 to 1983, Kaufman played the childlike mechanic Latka Gravas on television's Taxi, but he was more celebrated for his stand-up acts and concert appearances in which he wrestled women, impersonated Elvis Presley and sleazy nightclub crooners, and sang the tedious camp song One Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall almost all the way through. He seemed to relish putting audiences...
DIED. Walter Rauff, 77, one of the most infamous fugitive Nazi war criminals, who designed the "Black Raven" mobile gas-chamber vans that were used to exterminate perhaps 250,000 East Europeans, most of them Jews, in 1941-42; of lung cancer; in Santiago, Chile. A colonel in the SS, Rauff fled Europe after World War II and settled in 1958 in Chile where he lived in relative obscurity and comfort. Since 1963, Chile has rejected appeals from Israel, France and West Germany for Rauff's extradition to face murder charges...
...wide-eyed innocent discovering the wonders of the world. She never sounds jaded. Perhaps the most striking quality in her books is their appearance of utter frankness, about her lovers, her family and herself. On Shirley's 50th birthday, her mother developed a clot on her lung; Shirley went down to visit three days later and took mental notes on their conversation for future use. Says she: "I have decided that my next book will be about my parents. I want to get her at this moment so it will be etched in my heart for life...
Your statement that cholesterol is "proved deadly" [MEDICINE, March 26] appears to be largely based on the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute study. This was not a dietary study. It tested only the effect of a cholesterol-lowering drug on a small group of people with genetically elevated cholesterol levels, not the effect of alteration of the diet on the healthy majority of the population. Dr. Ahrens of Rockefeller University states, "Since this was basically a drug study, we can conclude nothing about diet...
...actions arouse more spontaneous revulsion than the deliberate use of toxic substances and pathogens against other humans. The thousands of mustard gassed blind and lung burned soldiers returning from World War I (and those that did not return) sparked an immediate world outcry. The result was the 1925 Geneva Protocol outlawing both biological and chemical weapons. The United States did not sign, perhaps as a by-product of the same isolationism that prompted the Senate not to ratify' entry into the League of Nations, but all other major powers were signatories to the treaty World War II saw no large...